Teapot



NOV. 24, M. L. BUCKINGHAM TEAPOT Filed Feb.

27, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet. 1

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M. L. BUCKINGHAM TEAPOT Filed Feb 27, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Nov. 24, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

MARIA L. BUCKINGHAM, OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS.

TEAPOT.

Application filed February 2'7, 1925. Serial No. 12,005. To all tUllOI/L it may concern: and maintained in the desired sanitary Be it known that I, MARIA L. BUCKING- condition. HAM, a citizen of the United States of Another object of the invention is to pro- America, and resident of Decatur, county of ride a tea or the like pot with a construc- 5 Macon, State of Illinois, have invented certion and arrangement of pouring spout tain new and useful Improvements in and which is readily interiorly accessible and Relating to Teapots, of which the following can be easily and thoroughly cleaned. is a specification. A further object of the invention resides This invention relates to certain improvein the provision of a tea or the like pot, with 19 ments in tea pots; and the nature and a novel construction, arrangement and objects of the invention will be readily mounting of a tea leaf container and cover recognized and understood by those skilled therefor, which are detachably mounted in in the art involved in the light of the followposition in and closing the pot and readily ing explanation and detailed description of detachable and removable therefrom as a 15 the accompanying drawings illustrating unit, and in which the tea leaf container 79 what I at present consider to be the preand cover are detachably connected so that ferred embodiments or mechanical expresthe cover can be removed from the container 'sions of my invention from among various and serve as a cover for the pot with the other forms, arrangements, c mrbinations container removed therefrom.

and constructions of which the invention is A further object of the invention is to capable within the spirit and scope thereof. provide a tea or the like pot of simple con- The invention deals generally with cerstruction and arrangement capable of being tain problems and disadvantages encounreadily manufactured at small cost, and tered in the use and operation of pots and which is so formed and designed as to prothe like vessels for brewing beverages, and vide for ready access to all portions of the in- 30 is primarily and more particularly directed terior thereof to permit of qulckly and thorto such pots employed for brewing tea. oughly cleaning the same to maintain the fine of the considerable disadvantages met pot in a sanitary, odorless condition.

with in tea and the like pots, is the difficulty Vith the foregoing general objects, and

in cleaning them and in maintaining these certain other objects and results in view,

pots in the desired sanitary condition to which other objects and results will be prevent generation of odors, and the conreadily apparent from the following explatainination of the pots and the materials nation, the invention consists in certain used therein, and resulting effect upon the novel features in construction, and in combiquality, flavor and other desired characterisnation and arrangement of parts, as will be tics of tea brewed therewith and thereby. more fully and particularly referred to and This difficulty and disadvantage is generally specified hereinafter.

due to the construction and arrangement of Referring to the accompanying drawings,

such pots, with an extended pouring spout in which similar reference characters refer forming a more or less restricted and torto corresponding parts throughout:

tuous passage to which access is not readily Fig. 1 is a view in side elevation of one had for cleaning, and to the further necesform of tea pot embodying my invention.

sity in pots of this type in universal use, for with the tea leaf container and portions of providing a strainer or perforated member the cover indicated by dotted lines.

at some point in or controlling the flow of Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the tea 109 tea through such spouts to remove undesirpot of Fig. 1 and through portions of the able matter such as tea leaves, sediment and tea leaf container and cover.

the like from the tea before discharge for Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken on the consumption. line 33 of Fig. 1, through the neck of the 50 Therefore, one of the main and fundatea pot with the leaf container and cover in mental objects of this invention is to elimimounted position. 4 H

nate the foregoing disadvantages and difli Fig. 4 is a horizontal section through the culties by the provision of a construction and leaf container and cover taken on the line arrangement of tea and the like pots which 4- -i of Fig. H I I will permit of their being readily cleaned Fig. 5, is a transverse, vertical section 119 through the neck portion of the tea taken'on the line 5- 5 of Fig. 1.

In the example of the invention presented herewith for purposes of explaining the various features thereof, a tea pot is disclosed and described, of the earthenware or crockery type. However, the invention is not limited in all its features to embodiment in tea pets but is of general adaptation to and embodiment in pots or vessels of such types, nor is the invention restricted to the inaterial from which the pot or vessel is formed, as metal or other materials may be employed if desired withoutgoing beyond the bounds of the invention, all of which will be readily apparent to those familiar with the art to which the present invention pertains.

The illustrated embodiment provides the pot pot or vessel 10, referring now to Figs. 1

and 2 of the drawings in particular, formed of earthenware or the like and having the outwardly bulged or extended side walls terminating at the upper end or side thereof in a relatively large top opening surrounded by a relatively short, vertically disposed annular neck portion 11 forming a continuation of the side walls of the pot of smaller diameter t an the diameter or" the outwardly bulged portions of the walls of vessel .or pet 10, At one slide, the vessel or pot 10 is provided with the usual or any other desired handle 12. The foregoing arrangementand formation of the pot or vessel 10 conforms to the more or less conventional type of tea I and the like pots or vessels.

With the form of pot 10, according to the invention, a spout l-l is provided thereon through the side thereof opposite the handle 12, and this spout is disposed extending outwardly through the wall of pot 10 below and in proximity to the neck portion 11, so as to form a relatively short, straight passage from and in communication with the interior of the pot 10. Preferably, although not necessarily, a cover 15 is provided over and closing the spout 1 1, and this cover is hinged or otherwise suitably pivoted at the inner side of the spout let adjacent the neck 11 of pot 10. Thus, by. the foregoing formation and arrangement of the pot or vessel 10 and the spout 14 therefor, the interior of the vessel is readily accessible for cleaning through the relatively large, open top surrounded by neck 11, and the relatively wide and short spent 14 forms an unobstructed passage easily and quickly cleaned,

According to the invention, a tea leaf eontainer 16 is'provided for removable mount ing in the pot 10 dctachably suspended from the neck 11 thereof, and a cover 'or closure 17 having a handle 18 is removably carried by and closing the container 16. The tea leaf container is preferably formedvof metal in tubular form having'a closed bottom. and

open top, with the lower portion of the container and the closed bottom thereof perforated to provide the strainer portion 19 of the container 16. The container 16 can be formed if desired of sections, the lower one of which provides the strainer member or portion 19, or the containercan be formed and constructed as a one-piece unit structure, as will be readily understood. The tea leaf container 16 is detachably locked at the upper end thereof in and to the neckll and depends downwardly through the interior of the pot to and terminating spaced a distance from the bottom wall of the pot, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawings.

The detachable mounting and suspension of the container 16 in pot 10 is provided for by the following construction of the pot neck 11 and the upper portion of the container 16. An annular flange or shoulder 20 is formed around the interior of the neck 11, extending substantially horizontally from the lower or inner end thereof at the approximate line of junction of the neck 11 with the side walls of the pot 10. Intermediate the shoulder 20 and the upper, outer edge of the neck 11, ribs 21 are disposed in diametrically opposite, alined positions on and extruding from the inner side of neck .11, and terminate spaced apart and their adjacent ends to form diametrically opposite passages between the ends thereof on the neck 11. The upper end of the tea leaf container 16 is formed with the exterior projcctions or lugs 22 at diametrically opposite positions thereon and spaced downwardly or inwardly a distance from the open end edge of the container, and these projections 22 are, in the present example, of an elongated form having a length less than the distance between the ends of the ribs 21011 neck 11, so as to permit free passage of the projections through the spaces between the ribs. The tea leaf container is mounted in operative position in the pot or vessel 10, by

, lowering the same downwardly into the pot through the neck 11, until the opposite projections 22 of the container pass between the spaced ends of the neck ribs 21, and rest upon and engage the shoulder 20 around the inner end of the pot neck 11. lVith the container in this position, it is rotated or turned until the projections 22 pass beneath or under the ribs 21, which look and secure the container against outward movement or displacement from the pot, while the shoulder 20 supports the container in position suspended in the pot and spaced from the bottom wallthereof. The projections or lugs 22 are spaced inwardly at such a distance from the upper or outer open end thereof as to support the container from shoulder 20, with the lower end of the container spaced frem the bottom of the pot, and the Ton i flash? or oftli: pot neck nae-age l tIreiear'sesiaeaed, substat i'iied, with the ei; edge 1, ""as will' be tcle aji "he fer"- hittier traittem w re as pan mg' "drai'vmgs'j.

; The eater-17 as". at armaments-ti e :1) d -mew th th 93p 17; forms the annular The ,invention provides forfthe jfdef' e iti' iet h M te s e "t e'r'epfito' aside-artists 16,?by

fie -r,a teater to i forni therewith, by inserting the s'leevei'po'rti on "23 of fare better intothe open end "of the coiitaiiicriwiththe pin 25' received in s] ot 22L, site then turning or. r'otatingt e unti l' tl hpin iiioifcs into the angle flocking parties of the slot,

wilhb'e' readily"understoedby' reference to theldritwiiigs nf'ihounjted attached position on the, on cover ,17 t -tos the; open ei l 'c l thereof, with the: "flange por 'on 17 of thel'cove'r be'ailng oifthe upiered eofv the conta ner and fo'rms a unit the container for motintlng 1n and rewith moral from the pot or vessel 10.

In operation and use of a tea pot embodying the invention, the tea leaf container is supported with the required ingredients, as the tea leaves T indicated in Fig. 2 of the drawings, and the cover 17 is then detachably mounted and locked on and closing the open end of the container, as hereinbefore explained. In mounted, attached position, the cover 17 forms a unit with the container 16, and provides through handle 18, the means by which the container can be readily inserted in and removed from pot 10. The container 16 is inserted in the pot and detachably locked in position suspended therein, through the medium of the projections 22, and the shoulder and spaced ribs 21, in the manner described above, and in mounted position the cover 17 closes the open upper end of the pot,"jwitli the" flange parties 17* ,ofth'e'j cover extending "across i"est1ng on the; upper! edge of; the pot necl 'I1-.f'\V 1tl1 the container'in positlon'the wa ter or otherdiquid employed can" freely circulate0ver, around and undert'he"-per- "forated portion 19 of the-container for free aecess'tdthe"material T'therein, while this perforated portion 19 strains and prevents items-renal 'T from escaping into the'brew iirtl'rtpotUQO. Inthisinanner the eliminaftion of all'perfo'ratml members or strainers "frtnh, oi""t-"entifolling pass:\ ,efe of the brew thronilifs'pout less-seared, so as to leave the spout tuirestrieted and unobstructed for reiuly' abcesstoflclean the same. P"

When it is desired to removecontainer 16, the same is rotitted'to 'posit'ionfwith lugs 01' projections 22 alined with the 'spaces' between'ribs' 21', and is then lifted from'the .pot by cover 1? and handlelS. Cover-1 7 can/then be removed by 'unlocking'pin' 25 from slot 241""II1 brewing tea, it is fdsirable to remove thetea leaves from the brew when a' certain desired strength 1 is obtained In 'the' Threw; a; as to maintain thef'br'ew at this tstl'ength. Width; the tea peter theiiivenon this i4treadily acc'omplished" 'by removingthe'tea leaf container 16, and cover "17 asa'iinit, andthendetaching the cover "from the container for replacementon and covering the open top of the'pot 10, the cover l'ibtaing so formed as to be adapted f1"; use on the pot either alone or when attached to the container. 5 Qt tea or the like pot embodying the foregoing "eatures in construction and arrangement scapable of being, easily andquiekly cleaned after use and inaintained"--in the 'proper. sanitary condition;- \Vith the container' '16v and cover 17 detached and rei inovedthe total interior surface of pot i0 is j ar-ctissihleffor cleaning through the rela- I t ivelylargefopen top, thereof, and due to the formation of. tht-yshort and straight spout "14, itlikewise"isinteriorly accessible for thorough cleaning. The formation of the tea leaf container is also such that it can be easily cleaned, so that the tea pot described embodies those highly desired characteristics of etiiciently brewing the desired beverage, and of being easily thoroughly cleaned.

It is evident that various changes, modifications, substitutions and variations might be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention, and hence I do not desire to limit myself to the exact and specific disclosures hereof.

Desiring to protect my invention in the broadest manner legally possible, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is:

1. In atea pot, in combination, an open top vessel, a tea leaf container detachably mounted and-locked in and suspended from the open .top ofsaid vessel, and .a conerfor said container and vessel detachably mounted on and; connected with the zcontainensaid container and-cover removable from and replaceable in said vessel .as ,a unit.

2.1m atea pot, .in combination, an open -.top vessel having a vertically disposed neck portion, a tubular open top container .detachably mounted in and locked to said neck portion and depending therefrom into andthrou-gh the vessel, ..a cover formed with a handle, detachably mounted ,on and locked tosaid container to close the same and in amounted position closing said open top vessel, and the said cover and container removable from andreplaceable in said vessel as a unit said 'cover handle, the said cover detachable from the container and :adapted for olosingsaid vessel with the container removed therefrom.

3. .In a tea pot in combination, a vessel having ,an openitop surrounded by a vertically d sposed neck ,portion, 7 I ,..arou:11d the mner gportion of said neck a shoulder I adjacent the lower end thereof, opposite ribs on the interior. of said neok spaced apart at their ends and spaced upwardly from said shouldeniatubnlar container formed with opposite exterior l-ugs adapted to passbetween the ends of said ribs and said ribs and shoulder, the said container detachably locked in position depending into said vessel by said lugs supported on the shoulder of said neck and confined against displacement therefrom bet-ween said shoulder and ribs on said neck.

4. a tea pot, in combination, a vessel having an open top surrounded by a vertically disposed neck, an inwardly extending shoulder around the interior of said neck, locking ribs on the inner side of said neck spaced from said shoulder and spaced apart at their ends, a tubular container formed with saaced exterior lugs at the upper end thereoi, said container detachably mounted in said vessel depending-through the .neck thereof byisaid lugs supported on said neck shoulder and confined between the shoulder and said locking .ribs, and a cover for the container and vessel, said cover detachably locked to the container in position 'to close the same and to close the open top of 'the vessel, "the said cover and container-removable from and replaceable in the vessel asa unit.

5. In a tea pot, in combination, a vessel having an open top surrounded by a vertically'disposed neck, a tubular vopen top container detachably locked to said neck and depending therefrom into said vessel, a locking pin on the interior of said container, and a cover for said container formed with a depending sleeve portion provided with a bayonet slot having a horizontally disposed portion; said cover detachably locked to said container with the bayonet slot receiving said container locking-pin, said container and cover removable from the vessel as a nnit. v

6. In a tea pot, in combination, -a vessel having an open top, a tubular open top container detach-ably locked to said vessel and depending through the open top of the vess01 a. distan e thereinto, said containenproridcd with an inwardly projecting locking pin adjacent the open 'end thereof, and a cover for the container and vessel embodying a radially disposed llange portion and a depending sleeve portion having a bayonet slot therein formed with a vertical portion and a horizontally disposed portion said cover detaclia-bly locked to said container with the skirt portionthereof withir the container and said locking pin received in the horizontal portion of the bayonet slot, the cover closing said container and vessel and the container and cover removable from the vessel as a unit.

Signed at Decatur, Illinois, this 24th day of Feb, 1925.

MARIA L. BUCKINGHAU. 

